Anthropogenic Global Warming Rats jumping ship.

Losing their religion as evidence cools off

BY: MAURICE L. NEWMAN
The Australian
November 05, 2012 12:00AM 

ONCE upon a time when Christendom was at its peak, missionaries would be dispatched to the four corners of the globe in search of converts. They believed their mission would expand the influence of Rome and save heathens from eternal damnation.

It was a compelling message. Convert and enjoy everlasting life in the hereafter. The advantage the missionaries had was that the religion they taught had no hypotheses that could be tested. Death - "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns" - meant that the afterlife could be neither proved nor disproved. Faith was the only thing needed.

Climate science is a bit like that - push the rewards and the catastrophes far enough into the future, and have faith that the prophecies will come true. However, unlike heaven, which we may reach at any time, climate prophecies need to be distant enough to make them hard to challenge yet sufficiently close to generate urgent action.

So when in 1969 Paul Ehrlich claimed because of global cooling it was an even-money bet whether England would survive until the year 2000, he could not immediately be proven wrong. After all, this was a cooling period.

Unfortunately for him, England is still inhabited and his predictions are still remembered. Ehrlich is now a warmist. Like a good stock analyst, when the company doesn't perform as you thought, better to change the recommendation from a sell to a buy, than admit you were wrong.

When Mother Nature decided in 1980 to change gears from cooler to warmer, a new global warming religion was born, replete with its own church (the UN), a papacy, (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and a global warming priesthood masquerading as climate scientists. Selfish humans in rich, polluting countries were blamed for the warming and had to pay for past trespasses by providing material compensation to poor nations as penance. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions became the new holy grail. With a warm wind at their backs, these fundamentalists collected hundreds of billions of dollars from naive governments that adopted their faith on behalf of billions of people. No crusader was ever so effective.

The message was stark. If the non-believers didn't convert immediately, our children and grandchildren would face a hell on earth. The priesthood excommunicated and humiliated sceptics and deniers. Alternative views were not tolerated and, where possible, were suppressed. Did someone mention the dark ages?

Because the new arrangements would distort capital allocations, disciples wrote economic texts showing how inefficient, productivity-sapping and costly green industries would actually boost economic activity and employment.

Unfortunately, the cost of saving the planet would fall disproportionately on the poor. This wealth transfer to the rich was unavoidable and, if the poor or the infirm died of cold or heat because they could not afford airconditioning, they would simply be martyrs to the cause. In any case, who could they appeal to? All political parties had signed up to the new religion.

But, self-deluded by the warming period and their confirmatory bias, the priesthood was overtaken by hubris and made increasingly extravagant claims. We were advised that Armageddon was now even closer at hand.

Regrettably for the global warming religion, its predictions have started to appear shaky, and the converts, many of whom have lost their jobs and much of their wealth, are losing faith. Worse, heretic scientists have been giving the lie to many of the prophecies described in the IPCC bible. They could not be silenced.

Of course, the IPCC texts can be interpreted in different ways and sceptics have obviously chosen the wrong interpretation.

When atmospheric temperatures on which we had relied failed to comply with the prophecies, the waverers were instructed to look at ocean temperatures and rising sea levels.

So far, so good. However, the British arm of the climate establishment silently released an encyclical that revealed no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures from the beginning of 1997 until August this year.

This communique was unearthed by the heretic newspaper, the Daily Mail, which pointed out that this period was of about the same duration as when temperatures rose between 1980 to 1996.

Of course, the religious high priests were quick to play down the significance of this pause. Phil Jones of the Climategate denomination claimed it was to be expected and, he insisted, 15 or 16 years is not a significant period.

Yet in 2009 he said that a "no upward trend has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried". But that was then and this is now and he is not about to lose his religion simply because the evidence doesn't support the text.

And, of course, there are always extenuating circumstances. El Nino and La Nina are there when you need them, to be forgotten when temperatures are warming or remembered if they are cooling. And, we've had a record Arctic melt. But better not mention the storm that NASA concedes broke the ice up and drove it south, or the record Antarctic ice gain.

Rather we must listen to Australia's Climate Change Commission novitiates who, against the evidence, have delivered a parable linking Superstorm Sandy to global warming.

At least the media disciples are keeping the faith by emphasising what supports the gospel and, where possible, omitting that which doesn't. New, corroborative revelations enjoy widespread publicity. If the same findings are later retracted for lack of scientific rigour, they are simply allowed to disappear without comment.

Yet despite all, believers in man-made global warming are declining. It will require an extraordinary crusade presaging even direr climate consequences for defying the warmist faith, before defectors even contemplate rejoining the religion. If that fails it may be time to burn sceptics at the stake. But then that would increase CO2 emissions. A dilemma, to be sure.

Maurice L. Newman is a former chairman of the ABC.

There IS a God and here is the proof. GM Workers may resort to "sabotage" aka. Don't Buy a Commadore

Why you should not buy an Australian made General Motors product

Workers may resort to 'sabotage'

The Age
March 30, 2006 - 10:26AM

Workers may resort to "subtle sabotage" in retaliating against unscrupulous employers in the current industrial climate, a senior Labor senator and former union chief says.

Senator George Campbell said similar tactics occurred on assembly lines in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s when there was management exploitation.

"I worked for a long time in this country in the '50s and '60s and there was a lot of sabotage that went on in the workplace, in a very subtle way," he told reporters.

"What concerns me is the sort of relationship that's now been established in the workplace is going to encourage that sabotage to take place again.

"I don't mean in a serious sense, but little things, like a screw being left out.

"As they used to say, never buy a motor car that was produced on a Monday or Friday."

Senator Campbell trained as a shipwright and later was for many years national secretary of the militant leftwing metalworkers' union, before entering parliament in 1997.

He said the government's Work Choices laws reminded him of working in factories in his early days.

"I think workers will find subtle ways of evening up the score with employers if they are being unnecessarily oppressed in the workplace.

"I don't advocate it, I just accept reality.

"I mean, that is what happened in the '50s and '60s."

He said the problem with the Work Choices laws was that those who drew them up had never experienced the realities of factory work or blue-collar jobs.

"Some of them actually ought to spend a few months working in factories seeing what it's actually like to go to work at seven o'clock every morning to work on a production line, to know what kind of relationship is being management and labour in those circumstances.

"They never did. John Howard developed all his industrial relations agenda sitting in the MTIA (Metal Trades Industry Association) offices in North Sydney."

2012 Enter: Reality and the begining of the never ending dole que for the millions of followers of the ideology of Senator George Campbell and the Australian Labor Party,

Comrades Embrace your future. 

"Islamophobes" ? outraged by Pakistan treatment of Australian Sheep

Why Australia (the West) deals with these swine amazes me,let the bastards starve to death in the dark.They have rejected civilization and the humanity ascribed by God, let them reap the whirlwind that they taunt God and nature to deliver them.No Muslim Nation should be supplied with LIVE animals.Their Blsaphemy against God and Nature should no longer be tolerated under the guise of "Oh its their way" "Dont be an Islamophobe" "All Cultures Religions are equal" 
these swine and their UN/ Democrat / Liberal/ PROGRESSIVE All Cultures Religions are equal apologists have run out of excuses for their prize "Best at Show"  IGNORANT SWINE that they Strut before us in their Rat with a Gold Tooth garb as been the saviours / future of their All Cultures Religions are equal, Brave New Politically Correct New World aka."Hope n Change" aka "FORWARD"

The TV Network, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, who,correctly, exposed this latest Muslim atrocity against animals is Australia's 100% Taxpayer funded National TV and Radio network, this organization is renowned for its support of radical leftist / Union / Australian Labor Party / Green agenda.
The presenter (not the reporter) of this story is more commonly known as " Red Kerry"

At no time over the past 15 years do I recall a similar program on Four Corners or any other ABC program, any similar out rage over the Beheading and or ill treatment of "Infidel" human beings by Muslims in Afghanmistan or Pakistan or any where else in the world.
The ABC and some of it's millionaire / TV celebrity supporters are infamous for carrying the can for who they call "Our David" aka. David Hicks, Mohammed Dawoud, Australia's Celebrity Gitmo detainee, adopted by the Progressives and the Australian Labor Party, their financiers the Australian Council of Trade Unions and their partners in crime, the Greens in Australia,well at least we know they like sheep, maybe one day they will evolve to a state where they have as much compassion for Non Muslims.

"Another Bloody Business"

Four Corners' 2011 expose of the brutal mistreatment of Austral"Another Bloody Business"ian cattle in Indonesia shocked many and had far reaching consequences for the live export trade. Tough new regulations were introduced to protect the welfare of Australian animals shipped overseas for slaughter.

But weeks ago news emerged from Pakistan of a brutal cull of 20,000 Australian sheep, ordered by the local authorities in Karachi. Sheep exporter Wellard told the Federal Government they lost control when police with semi-automatic weapons forced their employees away from the compound where the sheep were being held.

How did a major exporter lose control of a shipment of sheep in Pakistan, originally intended for Bahrain? Why was the Australian Government rebuffed by Pakistan when they tried to stop the cull? What does this gruesome episode say about the future of the live export trade?

Local authorities said the cull was carried out humanely. Pictures taken at the scene tell another story. This is a story the industry doesn't want told - you be the judge.

"Another Bloody Business", reported by Sarah Ferguson and presented by Kerry O'Brien,  Monday 5th November at 8.30 pm on ABC 1.